Kinda wanna write "How to make a database better than a blockchain"

Simply make a database that is public and collectively owned with these properties:
1. Can't stop me from updating records that belong to me
2. It can't disappear or stop me from querying the latest verified state
3. It can't disagree with previous claims state
4. Robust against attackers who may have billions of dollars
(What else am I missing?)

As soon as we have this magic database, we don't need a blockchain anymore!

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Hm, how can a db be collectively owned if it must be hosted on a single centralized service?

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I mean I agree, I'm mostly reframing the problem for people who can't imagine what use case a blockchain has.

But! Maybe there is some quantum entanglement voodoo we'll invent in the future to allow for some of these properties while also existing in a single deployment? Maybe the concept of a Singleton will be meaningless? Who knows.

I want to be open minded to other approaches, but these are the properties I want. :)

Theoretically no, but I am thinking through it and every solution feels a lot like... a blockchain

or at least a blockchain-adjacent distributed system like IPFS, BitTorrent, or something CRDT-based which I don't know much about, but just know it exists